1To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 4 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I write to you by a special influence while standing at my Desk, I was looking around the world to see if I could find one man, who had arrived, to a state of compleat happiness, eather in the abundance of riches or honour, in those two pursuits most of men, are engaged. while looking for the man of honour, I could think of no man who had arrived to so complete a state, as your self—this leads...
2Broadside: A Plea for Financial Assistance by Subscription for Thomas Jefferson, 1825, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Ingratitude has been called the vice of Republics. On a late occasion we have seen the Government and people of the United States give a practical and triumphant refutation of this calumny by their conduct to Gen. La Fayette. Another opportunity of removing the reproach now presents itself; and it is for the people of Virginia in their individual capacity, to say, whether they will not eagerly...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Chemical Apparatus essential to a well furnished Labratory & Lecture Room. Knights improved table furnace $ 30. Forge Bellows, tubes, blow pipes &c. 40 * Small blast furnace for table 10. * Sand heat furnaces to be set on brick work 16. * Bellows table with Lamp & blow pipe 25. Copper still, & Ressigeratory 20 Apparatus for Potassium 10
4To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 24 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The University of Virginia Bo t of J Bohn (Books omitted in former Shipment or order’d subsequently) Stephani Thesaurus, Valpy, Parts 30, 31 18/ 1 16 Paris’s Pharmacologia 2 vols 8 vo new ed 30/ 1 6 Euleri Calculus Integralis 3 vols 4 to rasc 4 14 6
5To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 7 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By your report to the Legislature I gladly learn the success of your agent in obtaining Professors in England. From a former publication I learnt it was the intention of the trustees to appoint one or more American Professors. As I have seen no notice of such appointments, I take the liberty to mention a name for one of the professorships. Mr. Chester Dewey now Prof. of Mathematics and Natural...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 26 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
of my Respects Persented to you This Coms Calling on you for your in fermation in Regard who Shd Be our Next preacedent and vise precedent Crofort or g r Janson or addams as for galliton for vice present I think it is a pitty he was ever Namd with M r Crofort for in My Settion of Country The peapel dont a per to wont a furner and it is much more unplessent one that was in The in Surrecttion of...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Une lettre toute de sa main et signée addressée de Monticello à M. de Lormerie. Monticello est le nom de la terre en Virginie. J’y joins deux lettres écrites en 1790 par M. de Lormerie à M. Jefferson; alors ministre du congrès. Il y a apparut qu’elles n’ont pu partir dans le temps. Ce M. de Lormerie étoit un home à projets que j’ai eu occasion de voir quelquefois ce qui m’a paru tres vraiment...
8“The Querist” to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Having had my curiosity excited on a few questions which I consider may be explained by those who are conversant with philosophy and Science in general : ; I have from a knowledge of your extensive researches, taken the liberty to request of you a solution of the following queries. 1 st why is the savage state called a state of nature?, 2 d considering that Adam was the first man & he a...
9Roberts to James Madison, 1 September 1822, with Postscript to Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson Papers)
[ Ed. Note : “ Roberts ,” who wrote under an apparent pseudonym and claimed to be a Revolutionary War veteran, composed a letter to former president James Madison dated Pennsylvania , 1 Sept. 1822. Although Madison ’s copy has not been found, a transcription of it was later sent to TJ. In a five-page document received at Monticello in the summer of 1824, the author blamed Madison for both the...
10“B.” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 1 August 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
The maker of the enclosed speech, accompanied Lewis & Clark , when he was an uneducated boy, over the Rocky mountains . The sentiments contained in it, are so much like your own, that a person unknown to you, is tempted to forward it to you, and it is without mr. S. knowledge. I ought perhaps to add, that he accompanied the party of Pryor with the Mandane chief up the